Thursday, February 23, 2006

Full Steam Ahead

We have been growing very quickly and the Random Spots map is starting to be very very cool. We are spending the day making lots of upgrades to the site. The surge of new users that we have experienced has been wonderful, we hope you all are enjoying the site. We are gonna post a message containing links to all the new cool maps users have already created in just a few hours.

Todays Improvements

We have set the minimum zoom that you need to be at for adding a point to 9 from 4, as there were problems with google maps not showing a 4 zoom level in certain parts of the map. We then went through all current points and fixed any optimum zoom levels for the points.

We added a link to this blog and also a link to a contact form to the front page under the logo. We are now "reachable".

Fixed Mini map to center properly when a point is clicked. The mini map shows up when a point has no pics associated with it yet.

We added some needed features to the top area where the map name is displayed. First, there is a button to take you back to the JoeMap random points map at any time. Second, there is a button that will take you back to the default coordinates and zoom of the map you are currently on (basically refreshes your current map). This was done cuz we found when users zoomed into a point on a map they wanted an easy way to get back out to the original view. Third, there is now a checkbox underneath every map name (top center) that is auto set when you arrive at joemap based on the size of your browser window. Then accordingly the map will either center or stay where it is when you click a spot on the map.